Judge rejects attempt to postpone unfair labor practices hearing

A federal judge has refused to cancel an administrative hearing scheduled for September 25 on National Labor Relations Board charges that a medical center engaged in unfair labor practices. In a written opinion, U.S. District Judge Jeffrey I. Cummings of the Northern District of Illinois denied Alivio Medical Center’s motion for a temporary restraining order and an expedited preliminary injunction that would have halted proceedings before the NLRB while Alivio challenges the constitutionality of the board’s structure…